In the United States Court of Appeals in Ohio, a case was tried where after a fire at a house claimed the life of a female occupant, her husband brought a wrongful death suit against the companies that provided the couple with alarm services, claiming negligence and gross negligence.
The deceased occupant contracted with an alarm company to provide home security services through a package. Included in the package was one free smoke detector, which was installed and linked remotely to a monitoring center and could inform the company of different information such as the outbreak of a fire.